Cartoon fuss highlights lack of rating system
A MICKEY MOUSE look-alike is hit by a car when crossing the road and lies in a pool of blood. A character that looks like Princess Elsa, a figure in the animated movie Frozen, is given a throat operation that involves bloody scenes. Recently, some companies have been producing such bloody scenes based on familiar characters and spreading them among children. Southern Metropolis Daily comments:
After the bloody reworked cartoons were reported by domestic media outlets, several main video-sharing websites such as youku.com and v.qq.com said they had banned them.
Yet that incident should remind us of a new risk, namely that improper information might be hidden in cultural products for children. For a long time, people have associated cartoons with children considering them to be specially made for kids.
